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eat prey in units of less than one". [ ] parasites include protozoans such as the agents of malaria , sleeping sickness , and amoebic dysentery ; animals such as hookworms , lice , mosquitoes , and vampire bats ; fungi such as honey fungus and the agents of ringworm ; and plants such as mistletoe ,
species, they can readily act as vectors of pathogens, causing disease . [ ] [ ] predation is by definition not a symbiosis, as the interaction is brief, but the entomologist e. o. wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". [ ] within that scope are many...
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"they're in true peril, real peril of extinction." a koala named pete from pappinbarra is treated at port macquarie koala hospital after fires in november. getty images more than one billion mammals, birds and reptiles nationwide - some of them found nowhere else on earth - may have been affected or
"we're not just talking about koalas, we're talking mammals, birds, plants, fungi, insects, other invertebrates, amphibians and bacteria and microorganisms that are critical to these systems," said manu saunders, a research fellow and insect ecologist at the university of new england in armidale. advertisement...
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/a-billion-animals-have-been-caught-in-the-fires-some-may-go-extinct-20200110-p53q9q